University of Bremen Makes Ape Robot

There are plenty of robots out there that look like animals. Most of
them emulate animals that are very different from the human form. They
are snakes, or spiders or cats. Apes are very human like, but that does
not stop researchers from making ape like robots.

A research team from the University of Bremen in Germany has made
itself an ape robot. The bot, which climes around on all fours, and
actually drags its knuckles on the ground on the front limbs. The robot
is able to move forward, backward and side to side. The robots cost
about $3.9 million to make, and the research was funded by the German
Aerospace Center. The project was part of a larger project called iStruct, which features the following sensors, "Joints: Positions (absolute and relative), speed, current, supply
voltage, temperature; Foot: 49 pressure sensors, a three axis
acceleration sensor, one distance sensor, three absolute position
sensors, one temperature sensor, and one 6DoF force-torque sensor;
Spine: 2x6 Positions sensors (absolute and relative), 6x1DoF force
sensors; Body: Inertial Measurement Unit, battery voltage"

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